The pages began an immediate programmed attack by posting on Reunion Rescue pages, articles and fundraiser to try and have LuLu returned and questions answered.

Close associates with Austin Animal Center began an online siege of attacks against Reunion Rescue.

Over the next few weeks, Reunion Rescue and Doug Johnson hired an attorney and tried to regain custody of LuLu the correct way, through the courts system. It was expensive and lengthy, but paid off. LuLu was returned June 20, but not before a painful and terrible experience which could easily have been taken care of May 21 and 22 at Austin Animal Center had the shelter simply held the requested meeting between Ms. Phillips and Reunion Rescue. Instead, for no reason, Chris Noble, acting director and Holli Odom called the police and filed a falsified police report against Reunion Rescue.

The attacks carried over to the city's Austin Animal Center Facebook page and the "LuLu is reunited with her family" Facebook page. Californians with an agenda and a grudge began posting accusations of neglect, abuse, theft, violence, insanity and other atrocities. Leading the party was 'Jane Doe' who was revealed to be no other than the daughter of Beverly Phillips.

The two and parties from California and the city of Austin appear to have cooked up quite a story.

This is a post about redoing the living room the night the 'surpised' and 'long lost' owner got the call about LuLu.

The long lost LuLu story about 'Ms. Beverly' meeting the long lost owner in San Antonio May 22 since the 'long lost' family lives far away in South Texas..four hours from Austin. LuLu had been 'missing/was Stolen back in November of 2012' .. however, 'Jane Doe' had 'searched everywhere for her' and had 'up flyers made and put them up everywhere, and went to every animal shelter' she could find. Hopefully, these animal shelters will be able to produce documentation to back up 'Jane Doe's' claims.

'Jane Doe' continues to post on Reunion Rescue's pages and fundraiser. The story begins to fall apart when 'Jane Doe' is questioned regarding her claims that her name and phone number was on the microchip.

Our attorney had literally worked his butt off managing this complicated situation, moving all the pleadings through the court system, oftentimes on Friday afternoons when these sorts of documents are commonly met with indifference. Pete cared about getting LuLu back to Reunion Rescue and it showed.

After dodging the process server multiple times, the LuLu is reunited with her family page makes a horrible announcement claiming LuLu has 'sever' heartworms. We knew this to be false. A raw fed dog dosed with herbal wormwood will not contract heartworms and more so, not a severe high positive case in a couple of weeks. However, we were terrified the 'Jane Doe' page owners would do something drastic as they felt their story losing credibility.

Compounding the situation were the hate groups from California urging 'LuLu is reunited with her family' to put LuLu out of her misery. LuLu is a five year old dog who's been fed and treated with a healthy diet and support. Would these individuals urge the frightened 'Jane Doe' people to kill a healthy dog simply to further their agenda? Sadly, the answer to that is yes. Late that night, while fearing the worst and reading 'Jane Doe's'
posts to 'let LuLu die' and moving to 'North Dakota' and being newly
pregnant and not knowing where LuLu was located so that the process
server could help us seek the truth in this mountain of untruths, I
began looking one more time on the Beverly Phillips and Charles Phillips
pages for clues.

I'd been searching for weeks for a dog with
the name 'Jack Wade' and a cat named 'Timmy' along with a strange tatoo
pictured in the photos on the LuLu is reunited page. I'd almost given up, but something made me visit Beverly and Charles Phillips pages and their daughter, Amanda Robbins. I noticed something I hadn't seen before, another name, Brandon Robbins.

I clicked on Brandon's name. Doug and I were on the phone comforting one another. It was around 1 a.m. I had been shaking and upset over the heartworm announcements and the many out of state posters 'advising' Jane Doe to put LuLu down.

I scrolled down Brandon's page reading the posts from his future bride, Amanda, Beverly Phillips daughter. I saw one that jumped out at me amid the emoticons and the telltale spacing after sentences followed by multiple exclamation marks...Jane Doe's 'signature' throughout the LuLu is reunited Facebook page and all over my Reunion Rescue and fundraiser pages. I told Doug and our voices rose in excitement. We'd hit paydirt.

I found the first big clue. Jack, the dog and Timmy, the cat!

Then mama, Beverly Phillips!

Next was the mother lode.....I'd been searching all month for a picture of the weird tatoo on the arm in the LuLu is reunited with her family photo album and there it was, bigger than Dallas. Brandon Robbins' profile picture wth the Chevy logo emblazened on his right arm. There was no doubt that was the person who had our LuLu!

Yahoo! We couldn't wait to call our attorney, Pete and tell him the news. It was 2 in the morning and neither Doug nor myself would be sleeping the rest of the night. To tie a big bow on this package was a photo of Brandon's pick up truck with the Georgetown, Texas registered plates.

Pete took the evidence to the courts and a very interested judge who signed off on the restraining order. This would prevent Amanda and Brandon Robbins from taking LuLu out of state and doing anything detrimental to her health now that we'd found the location where LuLu was being held.

Our attorney, Pete, jumped into overdrive to find the location where LuLu was being held, yet after another dodge the process server game of cat and mouse, Pete told us to post the notices of Temporary Restraining Orders on Facebook. I posted them everywhere including the Barks a lot Yelp page.

That afternoon, Doug received a call from Beverly Phillips offering us LuLu back if we would remove the Yelp review.

While sticking to the outlandish stories about retired vets in South Texas owning LuLu, pregnancies, moving from South Texas to North Dakota and on and on and on, Phillips promised to deliver LuLu after finally speaking with our attorney.

So much has happened since our rescue dog, LuLu was taken from us and literally held hostage. The massive effort has been too organized involving the attacks regarding holistic and proven cures for heartworm and other healthy practices at Reunion Rescue. The ties link to hate groups with agendas which have tried to destroy Reunion Rescue for years and have succeeding in killing at least one dog, Rudo, in California.

We have LuLu back, safe and sound, but the fight is long but over. We will continue to search and use the legal means necessary to get to the bottom of this entire sordid affair involving LuLu, our Reunion Rescue dog. Each debunked lie will be revealed and shared with our loyal followers and fellow animal lovers.

Until the next time, here's a happy moment between LuLu and Nolan who discovered each other and big love at Reunion Rescue after each suffered terrible abusive backgrounds. This is what we do, make dogs happy!

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Mongoose218 • 2 hours ago
Shows once again why all rescues need state and/or national oversight, just as any other organizations are regulated, have to show what happens to their money, and in the case of Rescues, how many are adopted out, or found foster homes.....

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 18 minutes ago
Cindy- I will point people to the truth yes. If that means I respond so the real narrative is told then yes, I will answer the posts. You do not get to control a public forum. If you want that control there are private blogs for that.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 9 minutes ago
If you refuse to stop overwhelming the commentary, I will be forced to shut down the Q and A and direct commentary to the American Pit Bull Examiner page where you will be blocked. Are you being sent here by BAD RAP to post all these nasty slurs and take over the comments section? That would explain your behavior.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Coloradogs...please allow me to answer my readers. If you would like to write a column for the Examiner and promote your own agenda, please do and please use our link so that Reunion Rescue will receive a $50 donation. Until then, this is still American Pit Bull Examiner, my column, and I am competent to handle the discourse and questions directed toward the column and my articles. Thank you.

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Kristy Graham • 4 hours ago
Cindy I have asked on multiple "articles" and "posts" you've put up recently where the proof is. you have ignored me every single time. Who is this "mystery" person you refer to? Where is your proof? AFF and Bad Rap do work closely together, that's not some secret. Because they BOTH work to help the dogs. What a freaking concept. I'm personally tired of your insanity and I think a lot of other people are too. Until you can show some proof of any of this nonsense. In one paragraph you say Bad Rap has a history of putting down dogs who aren't adopted soon enough, in another you say they have had dogs "pending for months". And if you read the story of Susie Q...as tragic as it was, she was put down for fear issues that had not improved. Sadly, sometimes that's the real world, but they were honest about it. At the same time, they saved another dog "Maude". Nowhere does it say that they saved Maude ONLY because they let Susie go. It's simply a day in the life of rescue that was shared. And your insanity seems to know no bounds as I have recently seen you now trying to tie some of these groups you have issue with to cravendesires. I'm sorry you lost dogs at Spindletop. Maybe you should have paid more attention to where those dogs were and what was going on with them. But I guess you were spending too much time on the internet slandering and defaming others.

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Cindy Marabito Kristy Graham • 3 hours ago
So now you are going to follow me over here and attack me. You have a lot of anger. Lose it somewhere else. Slander (fyi) is spoken and libel is written..there is no malice nor libel in this article. Since you are so close with BAD RAP and Animal Farm, perhaps they'll let you know where these murdered dogs finally wound up.

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Cindy Marabito Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Just a few of the dogs killed at BAD RAP while making $341,000 per year. These are the facts.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Oh yes the notorious Dogsbite screen shot argument. You bet your ass we're proud to be partnered with groups that have done so much for dogs and people and have incredible integrity. That's also our Vet. She's awesome! DINOS has great behavioral stuff for those who are interested and Different Strokes Pet Boutique is in Houston. A fun little place for dog lovers.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
So you are here to put me down and then use my readership to promote your supporters? That's a brand new one ... wow. We are homeopathic and holistic, in fact the world's only raw feeding no kill holistic pit bull refuge, so hawking your conventional vet here is very much out of place. Like I suggested, if you are interested in writing your own Examiner column, please use our link and start you own..then you can promote and hawk all your stuff there...and we at Reunion will receive $50 for the referral. Best of luck.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Please Cindy- You sound more and more like Colleen Lynn the more you type. We support groups who put their nose to the grindstone and do good work. We support groups who do community outreach. We know that not all dogs can be saved and sometimes you have to make those heartbreaking calls instead of sending your dog to someone else to avoid the responsibility. We don't spend our time writing articles slandering good people we might disagree with. We have work to do.

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Mari ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Having spent a great deal of time researching and fighting the Dawn James and Colleen Lynn groups, I can guarantee Cindy sounds nothing like them and it is despicable of you to insinuate such a thing.

You say "We don't spend our time writing articles slandering good people we might disagree with. We have work to do." May I point out that is exactly what you are doing here. Why don't you go to work.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Well, my name is Cindy and not Colleen and not all the other names you keep calling me..what is your name? Do you have one?

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Wendy Medina Garcia ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
Colleen Lynn Hates Pitbulls Cindy Marabito DOES NOT! LOL
If Bad Rap rehabilitated the Vick dogs then why didn't they Rehabilitate the two dogs in question? A dog having fear does not mean they cannot be rehabilitated. Just takes alot of Love and Patience. :) All Cindy is saying is that they could have been saved if given the help needed! Best Friends also took some of the Vick dogs and rehabilitated them and the ones who were deemed to dangerous to be adopted out will live there till they die of natural causes. I recorded that episode when it came out and saw how this male pitbull named Cherry was afraid of people but with alot of Love and Patience they can change and live happy lives.

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Kristy Graham Wendy Medina Garcia • 2 hours ago
Doesn't the fact that they saved all those dogs sort of tell you that if they let one go there was a reason? They OBVIOUSLY are willing to save any dogs that can be saved. That only puts even MORE credence to the fact that if they felt this dog needed to be euthanized or if the 2 spindletop dogs she's having such fits about WERE put down, there was a reason.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
By work to do, you mean skip down to the next comment and call me names? Just askin'...

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Kristy Graham Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Yes, the dog that was killed because of fear issues. So? Again, where is your proof that the Spindletop Dogs you reference in this article were killed. And if they were, where is your proof that is was done for a "bad" reason? I didn't follow you here, you posted an article. Last I checked, the comments section on articles were for comments. I'm not close with BAD RAP or with AFF, but I do recognize the amazing amount of good they've done. And you have YET to answer my question. Where is the proof of the accusations you have made against them?

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Cindy Marabito Kristy Graham • 2 hours ago
Thank you. Finally someone has a statement about the dead dogs...please elaborate as we've been asking for 2.5 years. Was the dog with 'fear issues' #6 who was formerly known as Bindi? Or was the dog with 'fear issues' #7? What happened that caused the dog's destruction? Please let us know. Craig Malisow of the Houston Press has been asking as have many others for over two years.

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Jessica Mullins Cindy Marabito • an hour ago
If you're saying the blog is about killing dogs, perhaps if you read it you would find out what happened to the ones who were euthanized. I've read the comments & you say you want answers to what happened to them. Maybe the info your looking for is there.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • an hour ago
So you won't read the blog but you will act as if you have all the facts. Have a good night Cindy and enjoy raising fund for your rescue on the backs of others. Just don't be surprised when people who know them and actually read what they write, come to their defense.

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Kristy Graham Cindy Marabito • an hour ago
I have seen three different places here where you talk about how can get money for your rescue. So I guess I won't waste my time reading that either. Good lord woman. Get some professional help. You've obviously been doing this way too much.

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Mongoose218 Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Here is a link to a Penny Eim's article of today about yet another "failed" rescue with dead and dying dogs on the property.....RESCUES NEED OVERSIGHT like any other organziations!!!

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ColoRADogs Mongoose218 • 2 hours ago
Agreed. That's why Spindletop happened and we see failing sanctuaries all over Texas. Colorado does have oversight. We love it. Bad Rap is completely open about what goes on and many, MANY of us have been to their facility or helped and partnered in community outreach and advocacy. The fact no one wants to let Cindy in any longer speaks to her history of vilifying people and groups without fact, not about these groups' integrity.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Then you might want to check your pulse because you are due for sudden death Cindy. I don't hate you, I feel sorry for you because you look like a fool and you can't even see it. I don't waste my time hating people like you or Colleen or Jeff. I feel both pity and compassion. Because I can only imagine what it must be like to be in your head. But I know the people you speak of and I know you are lying. I think it's time you are called out on it and please expect to be called out on it every time you print lies. I don;t know why you haven't been sued sooner. We would have sued you out of the gate.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
Wow. This is what you call 'pity and compassion?' What dictionary are you using, because they got the meaning of advocacy way wrong...

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
It doesn't mean you get to bully people without repercussions Cindy. That's how the other "side" works. They bully and lie and then claim victim when they are called out on it.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Seriously Cindy. This is not said to be mean. Do you have a processing issue? Because your responses make zero sense. If so then I can cut you some slack but otherwise you are just acting ridiculous.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
So you are saying you love it when horrors like Spindletop happen? And this statement..."The fact no one wants to let Cindy in any longer speaks to her history
of vilifying people and groups without fact, not about these groups'
integrity." What is meant by this..let me in? Where am I supposedly trying to enter? I don't understand this statement at all, especially coming from someone throwing judgements, libel and slander accusations about.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
What??? You are really in need of help. It's why you are block and not one of these groups wants to speak to you Cindy. But you seem to lack the self awareness to understand what the real reason is behind it. We agreed with the need for oversight to make SURE things like Spindletop don't happen. Seriously, what is your issue with facts.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Cynthia- Your vendetta is no different than the same way Colleen Lynn behaves. People won't speak to you because you are not truthful and you harass them. Yet you continue to spread lies in the face of the truth and work to destroy groups who are actually doing good work rather than hiding behind a computer screen. Honestly, at this point I think most reputable advocates and groups have your number and simple are calling you out on it. Why did you take down the video I posted of Donna and Tim discussion all the programs and owner support BAD RAP does? Because it did not fit your agenda and told the truth. You don't have facts, you have hysteria.

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ColoRADogs • 5 hours ago
Are you kidding me? This entire article is a complete fabrication and no better than Colleen Lynn and her hysteria. Please anyone who is reading this go to the source instead of believing this kind of material. Cindy, you've had a long standing vendetta against BR long before you wrote for this pseudo-news site along with slandering Ken Foster ( who does not make millions as you claim but works at Starbucks). If you want to follow the money how about you look at commissions Tim Racer makes as an artist instead? What about printing that the barn holds up to 6 dogs and there are other kennels on the property? What about all the work they do in the community with those funds helping to spay and neuter dogs, microchip and vaccinate, help find housing for owners in need, training for dogs? Your story is filled with lies and just because people don't want to let you in does not mean they are hiding anything. It means they are tired of the slander and drama you bring to the table. I hope you are sued for slander and libel at this point. It would be well deserved.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 3 hours ago
Sounds like you have inside information that repudiates the statements in the article. So the $65,000 per year drawn by Tim Racer from BAD RAP is aside from the 40 some odd hours per week at the studio housed and underwritten by BAD RAP donation money? Please provide statements to this effect and the article will be edited to reflect your findings.

The work they do in the community is underwritten by huge PetSmart grant money, yet we do not see the $250,000 grant or the $80,000 grant to hold parties...if the group doesn't do a certain amount of grant funded outreach these hundreds of thousands of dollars will be withdrawn.

Again...slander is spoken and libel is written. Libel is spreading malicious lies which cause a person and/or entity to lose funding. A) no malice here, just an objection to needless killing. B) there doesn't seem to be any loss of income here....

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Then I actually look forward to the judgement against you for libel. You are so delusional you actually believe the story you've made up Cindy. I suggest you get help because you are living in a world of lies.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
Which judgement? Are you referring to a legal case or is this some sort of fundamentalist threat?

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
You do not know me although you call me by my first name and also other nasty names. You do not have the right to make these nasty accusations and armchair psychiatric slurs. I will say as the receptacle of your multiple slurs and attacks today, you are behaving rudely. You are a guest here and were this to occur in my home, I would ask you to leave and not return.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • an hour ago
This is not your home Cindy. This is a public article and you as the author are open to being asked to justify your agenda and to having your facts disputed. Your accusations of these groups and of Ken Foster deserved to be addressed, and when you print them, you can expect people, including us, will call you out on the lies. If you do not want to come under that scrutiny, then you should keep those conversations and accusations out of a public forum. I am not a "guest" as this is not a private forum. You are making, and have made for many years, accusations that are unfounded. I have every right to speak against that and tell the truth. I call you Cindy because that is your name and no formalities are needed in a forum. When you accuse me of nasty accusation though, I would suggest you review your own comments.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 36 minutes ago
This is my home. I write from home and this is my article and column. I don't have a $350,000 'blog barn.' The column's not publicly funded, so again, you are mistaken. You are a guest as you do not live here or have your name associated with the column. You keep calling me awful names and now a liar. If these dogs are alive, PLEASE PLEASE correct me! I would love to edit the article and show that these dogs are living and in great homes .. or even at BAD RAP!

No one said you do not have the right to speak, but you are being asked to conduct yourself with respect for the other posters who are guests here as well.

I keep asking..do you even have a name? You call me Cindy, my first name as my friends and family call me..yet you've been asked multiple times to introduce yourself. Are you ashamed to state your real name after the way you've conducted yourself here?

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 3 hours ago
Where are Ken Foster's dogs for adoption....if any? Where is the slander? When did I speak with you?

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
It's not working Cindy. The more you post the more your motives are apparent. Sula posts about available dogs all the time as does Ken, Perhaps you've been blocked for harassing him too? You don't have facts and those that exist you refuse to acknowledge.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
As do we. Because we actually work with them and so instead of spewing lies, we see the good work and are involved in it. We speak from a place of truth and involvement in a common cause to help the dogs and people who love them.

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Cindy Marabito Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Just a few more of the many dogs from Katrina and Spindletop killed at BAD RAP....

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Kristy Graham Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
That's an article about ONE dog. It was already addressed. WHERE IS THE PROOF OF WHAT YOU ARE ACCUSING THEM OF IN THIS ARTICLE?

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Kristy Graham Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Wow. You are clearly delusion. I didn't say they are. I asked where YOUR PROOF that they are DEAD is. And if they are then I want YOUR PROOF that they were killed for some nefarious reason. Cindy, you are crackpot crazy. You seriously have been doing this for too long. The Charlie debacle, Spindletop, now BR and AFF. You get asked to support your accusations and claim I'm angry and attacking you. Will you tell a judge that when you end up in court for this nonsense too?

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Cindy Marabito Kristy Graham • an hour ago
Just out of curiosity, what is clearly delusion? Charlie..that explains a lot...ok. You are part of that group?

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • an hour ago
I think it's time to walk away and let the dialogue tell the real tale here. I feel bad for you Cindy and I think you need some serious help.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Didn't you already post this? We reposted the video. Now the question is do you have the integrity and conviction to let it be seen?

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
where is the video? I just just told you how Disqus works..I have no authority to remove your name calling, angry posts or videos..I'm a filmmaker so always offer the opportunity for newbies to express themselves..please show us your work. Show us your integrity..please..we would love to see your video!

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Dogmom • 3 hours ago
I've been staring at a blank "comment" box for the past 10 minutes because I can't stop stumbling over what I want to say. WOW! I'm speechless. Flabbergasted. Disgusted. Disappointed. Bewildered. Befuddled. Here we have an organization that has done excellent work. That has helped not only countless dogs but countless people. People questioning them after one crud piece? Once you manage to get past all of the popups and hot air anyone reading this blog should be able to see that it is missing any sort of fact. Badrap is an organization that is fueled by integrity. If a choice was made to let an animal go it was because it was in that animals best interest. The end. Unbelievable. The minute and a half that I wasted reading this blog is gone forever. Badrap ... you rock. Keep on keepin' on doing what you do best. Helping dogs and their people!

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Fast Eddie • 5 hours ago
Cindy... I am not sure why you have pretty much decided to attack two reputable organizations in the way you have been for a while now. It seems you are pouring all of your energy into this personal vendetta you have against AFF instead of focusing on eliminating BSL (which is what we should all be doing. AFF has had a pivotal hand in getting BSL outlawed in quite few states yet you try and run them in the ground over this spindletop issue. You are only alienating yourself form fellow pit bull advocates by your endless attack on groups dedicated to helping pit bulls and fighting BSL. It is seriously time to stop this tirade and get back to focusing on saving these dogs and ending BSL. Until you do I will have to stop promoting your articles and delete any posts like this that you make on our Protect Pit Bulls from BSL facebook page.

If you have personal issues with Bad Rap then so be it but it does not benefit our cause or pit bulls when you continually post articles that really carry no merit and where you have NO factual information for the actions you are accusing them of.

It seems you are only on this tirade for your own self satisfaction and I know you lost an enormous amount of supporters due to this personal agenda and vendetta you have against Bad Rap and AFF.

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Nazonee Fast Eddie • 5 hours ago
Maybe that is her agenda....to make it appear that those who have taken on the task of promoting a wonderful breed of dog are noting more than a facade. It then can be beneficial to those wanting to ban our breed. Media has been biased about lessor things. Makes me feel as if she is assisting in the destruction of the breed, instead. Kind of makes me go huuuuuummmmmm

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
We are not ashamed of our support for reputable groups Cindy. You are right we are referring to you. So what is your solution? Send them off to "sanctuary? "

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Cindy Marabito Fast Eddie • an hour ago
So long as BAD RAP is killing dogs, American Pit Bull Examiner will call them out on it by covering the killings in our articles.

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Pit bull mom • 7 hours ago
It seems they are running a huge con game. Receiving boatloads of money to rescue dogs, but in reality they are killing them as fast as possible.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
In case you haven't noticed Cindy, you are the lone voice in your world. No one else on here seems to be joining in to agree with you. Because people are tired of it.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
Your group seems to have a lot of time to discuss. I am a writer and rescuer and working on my column...you are all over the place here on my column, name calling and hating....your group seems to have a lot of time to come here and disperse your agenda, BAD RAP's agenda..but, then they keep a low number of dogs as well....

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Well we can't all be like Spindletop Cindy. Some of us believe that we owe it to the dogs we bring in to have the resources to give our very best. I know who you are. I remember you showing up with a leather muzzle on your face in Sac.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
You are misquoting the article you misread. The Animal Welfare Commission meeting was held in San Francisco, not Sacramento. As a professed advocate, you will be happy to note the muzzling ordinance was voted down unanimously after I illustrated the absurdity by donning a leather and wire muzzle. You see, I love the dogs and am solution oriented. I will, at the risk of looking silly to you and your group of advocates you reference, do and say what is needed to protect the dogs. With me, it's the dogs needs and solution first. Politics and groups take a backseat. Due to mis-guided advocates and politics, animal welfare has not progressed much and that is the great crime of our nation which is killing a dog every 11 seconds.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Give it up Cindy. People are done believing your skewed reality and can see this is a vendetta against good people.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
So you do support your 'good people' killing innocent dogs? Please feel free to tell the honest truth here. We are a receptive group and open to misguided opinion.

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sara c Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Honestly asking here: Is there no difference between killing and euthanasia to you? Even with limited resources and homes with quality of life hanging in the balance?

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Cindy Marabito sara c • 42 minutes ago
I guess I'm confused..BAD RAP rarely has over 4 or 5 dogs for adoption and brings in over $340,000 a year...where is the limited resources? And these two dogs had survived horrible existence at Spindletop and were assessed by Animal Farm, Red Rover, HSUS and Montgomery County Animal Services before being entrusted to BAD RAP. Why were they then killed?

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Did you actually read that blog? *sigh* You need serious help Cindy. That is said with all the compassion we have.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Curious..who is we? You keep calling me Cindy and some other nasty names, but introduce yourself? Who are you? What is your name? Do you have a name?

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ColoRADogs • 3 hours ago
We see you've taken down the video of the good work they do. So by your own rubric, why would you do that if you have nothing to hide?

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Please repost your video. I'm sure it's really good. We'd all love to see it and help you out as a fellow filmmaker. What medium do you work in?

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bus0205bus • 7 hours ago
This is so shameful !! It is a pity that many people don't look what is behind an organisation. Not every organisation is really helping the animals... And as the animals can't tell what is going on, deception is always possible.

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Kristy Graham bus0205bus • 5 hours ago
It's a pity that people don't look at who is writing the articles that have NO factual basis included and ask what reason they have for posting them.

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Mongoose218 bus0205bus • 2 hours ago
RIGHT! and earlier today Penny Eims wrote an article about yet anther "failed" rescue with dead and sick dogs on the property.....these are great money making devices for SOME ( a minority) of rescues!!!

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sara c • 3 hours ago
I don't understand. The author keeps reposting an image of a blog post that seems to explain a difficult decision to euthanize a dog with serious fear issues. Is the point that they shouldn't have pulled the dog in the first place (and probably given her the best months of her life)? Or that the dog Maude should've died instead? I'm totally confused.

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ColoRADogs sara c • 2 hours ago
Cindy has a vendetta against some groups Sara. The reality is some dogs are so broken the best we can do is give them lots of love and time in the sun before we let them go. It sucks. Cindy is simply looking to attack people based of a fantasy she has built up in her mind because reputable groups no longer want to deal with her due to her false accusation and vitriol. Don't believe a word she says.

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sara c ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
In other words, the author disagrees with this organization for euthanizing this particular dog and therefore discounts any good work they do or the hundreds of others they've saved?

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ColoRADogs sara c • 2 hours ago
Exactly!

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Sara..it's not euthanizing one dog..it's euthanizing tons of dogs..some who were owned pets and others who were temperament tested as exemplary pets and had been rescued.

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sara c Cindy Marabito • an hour ago
How did they get owned pets to euthanize? I don't understand where this information can be found. Is there a link?

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Sophies mom sara c • an hour ago
There is no link for her claims that they put down owned dogs, nothing to back up any of her claims in that regard. When BAP RAP does euthanize a dog (always with reason) they tell everyone about it on their blog because they are transparent. "Tons" is a purposeful misrepresentation, which is Cindy's MO, as I am sure you can tell from the interactions here.

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sara c Sophies mom • 41 minutes ago
When there are limited resources, it's not surprising that once in a while, dogs with the most severe issues are euthanized in order to give countless others a better chance. Really tough decisions when there are too many dogs and not enough homes. And I just don't get any indication from any of the materials cited or provided here that there was anything sinister going on or that they didn't make the decision they thought would be most beneficial. Will continue looking at all this though...

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Cindy Marabito sara c • an hour ago
The Animal Farm Foundation sent the two dogs to BAD RAP .. the two dogs had survived the horrors of Spindletop only to be shipped to Oakland and killed at the hands of BAD RAP. This is outlined in the article and also covered in Craig Malisow's investigative piece for the Houston Press.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Excuse me, but Coloradogs..please allow me to answer the questions directed at American Pit Bull Examiner. I've asked you very politely to not interject yourself and your agenda when the question is directed to me and the column. If you would like to write your own column, please apply with the Examiner and please use our link so that Reunion will receive a $50 donation. Thank you.

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Guest • 6 hours ago
I'll be rethinking my opinion of Bad Rap. I realize that one of the saddest facts of rescue is that you can't save them all, and even for the ones you do manage to save, there may not always be a happy ending. A growing number of animal "owners" are choosing to dump senior and terminally ill animals at kill shelters. There are legitimately some cases where a rescue saves a dog, only to have to make the painful decision to release him from the pain and suffering of illnesses beyond cure. However, any legitimate rescue will not hide just what happened to those animals. That not only are they not coming clean about what happened to these two dogs, but are blocking people who are asking about them, very fishy, if you ask me.

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Fast Eddie Guest • 5 hours ago
People get blocked from pages due to constant harassment.. There is no factual info to back up her claims. This is a personal issue against 2 reputable organizations

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Jessica Mullins ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
Please, do not worry about asking her to change her opinion of any rescue. She removed her name from the original post she made & now has it as guest. The reason why is because she ran the Hearts & Hounds Rescue in Indiana. If you want to see what a disgraceful & horrible rescue looks like.....look it up. I'm sure you'll find quite a bit of info still out there!!!!

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Cindy- Do you think for one second I would discuss this with you? What ALL dogs? This isn't about dogs for you. This is about an obsession you seem to have built in your head.

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sara c Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
I'm trying to get my head around this and stay open-minded. So there's the dog SuzieQ that was euthed. And possibly two others from Spindletop. You're saying you do not agree with the decision to euth dogs with severe issues, and that outweighs all the good work being done and all the dogs they've saved from euthanasia?

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
I'm not aware of a video...you are posting videos on my article? I haven't removed anything. Disqus takes about 48 hours to respond and you can't remove anything ... I've dealt with some very nasty posters and groups on the commentaries below my column and have sought help from Disqus in the past to no avail. However, if you are interested in writing for the Examiner, please use my link as Reunion Rescue gets $50 for every referral...you can have your own column and post your videos and your opinions. Best of luck and we can use the $50....LIVE dogs and holistic care are a bit more expensive to underwrite than euthanasia.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
Got it! So every time someone clicks on your article you receive $50. So if you write this kind of article, the hope it that lots of people will click on it and drive up donations to you. So as much as you like to claim you hate BR and SULA and AFF, you are actually using them for fundraising for yourself.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
You misunderstand...for referrals who begin writing for the Examiner, Reunion Rescue receives $50. You are misquoting me and also when you state I hate 'BR and SULA and AFF' you are misquoting me. For someone who is so very concerned with libel and slander (spoken by the way) you might wish to research your statements before sharing on a public forum.

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Kristy Graham Guest • 4 hours ago
What proof is in this article that would make you rethink your opinion of a group that has done so much good? What FACTUAL information is here? None..this all the opinion of one woman. One woman who seems to have a personal vendetta against Bad Rap for no reason she can actually support.

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Jessica Mullins Kristy Graham • an hour ago
Kristy Graham, please don't waste time on the lady who posted she was going to rethink her opinion of Bad Rap. She originally posted under her name, but then changed it to guest once I called her out. The lady who was going to change her opinion ran a rescue in IN called Hearts & Hounds Rescue. There is still some info online. Her rescue was truly disgraceful. She left dogs stranded all over the US & left 1 of the dogs in her rescue be euthanized at a shelter because she wouldn't go claim it!!!!! I'm still shocked that she would even comment on this issue after her own actions. Some people have no shame!!!

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
Again, just like Colleen Lynn. One liners that are inflammatory to try and prove some point that doesn't exist. People are not running to the forum but rest assured Cindy, most advocates are discussing the insanity of your posts and what you do not bring to the table when it comes to effective advocacy. No one wants to work with you because you are a bully and you spread lies.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 2 hours ago
You are accusing me of being Colleen Lynn and call yourself and your liked groups 'advocates'...advocates of killing dogs and terming it 'effective advocacy'.... I'm trying not to laugh here, but why would I want to work with 'advocates' like you and your groups who endorse killing...or hire on at one of the gassing facilities.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 2 hours ago
You don't and I am happy for it. I remember you from CA and nothing has changed. You are still spiteful and work against the dogs and groups for what reason no sane person can understand. The more you type the more insane you sound. I hope you realize that.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 27 minutes ago
I do not know you. You are very rude and misguided. You do not know me, but obviously have a strong need to try and humiliate me publicly. I can take it, but certainly you must have something more important and constructive to do. You just sound mad.

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ColoRADogs Cindy Marabito • 20 minutes ago
Not mad at all Cindy. But I do refuse to stay silent while you spread lies about good people and good groups. I've done that long enough. So as you post lies, I will respond with the truth.

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Jessica Mullins Guest • 2 hours ago
Ha! Ha! So....I call you out for what you did to the dogs in your rescue & you remove your comments, then post them again as a "Guest" word for word!?!?! Unbelievable!! Why would you even comment against any rescue???? Hearts & Hounds Rescue was an absolute disgrace!!! Leaving dogs in limbo in Georgia & Kentucky, plus the others that came forward. What was the dog's name that you let die in a shelter??? I think it was Elvis wasn't it? How dare you?? How dare you question any rescue or any rescuer when you did the unthinkable????

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Jessica Mullins Guest • 4 hours ago
OMG!!! Seriously Linda Szymoniak....you're going to question a RESCUE!!!! Some people haven't forgotten about the poor hounds from Hearts & Hounds Rescue. Oh, I bet you haven't either....that was your rescue wasn't it!?! You left dogs stranded all across the US & let a dog in your rescue be euthanized at a shelter. SMH!!!!

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jaspurranddude • 6 hours ago
It is up to those who really want to help animal rescues to do due diligence in investigating each rescue or organization before making donations to them. It's not necessarily the ones with the slickest websites or most pathetic stories that have the animal's best welfare at heart. After all, the best cons are the ones that are the most believable sounding.

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Kristy Graham jaspurranddude • 5 hours ago
You mean like this article that seems to be based on nothing but a personal vendetta?

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Cindy Marabito Kristy Graham • 3 hours ago
Speaking of vendettas Kristy Graham...since I can't move without tripping over you and your own vendetta, you are mistaken. I object to any needless killing of innocent animals as those covered in thousands of my articles and blogs.

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Dogmom Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
What proof do you have that these dogs were "needlessly killed"? I see that you keep re-posting this over and over again but when I read the blog written by badrap I read legitimate info provided by the group that you are accusing of "killing dogs". The statements you are making are strong. Since they are the ones that provided the info about the dogs it seems like they aren't trying to hide much.

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • 33 minutes ago
You've been asked several times to please allow me to answer my readers. Please. I don't know how better to ask you to allow me to address the questions directed to American Pit Bull Examiner. Is this a Colorado thing? I'm confused.

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Kristy Graham Cindy Marabito • 3 hours ago
If the dog had issues that could not be addressed and meant she could not be safely rehomed then they made the right choice. Dogs living in that kind of fear have no quality of life. So yeah, I disagree with you 100%. I don't have a vendetta against you. I want proof of the accusations you are making. I'm still not seeing it.

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Cindy Marabito Kristy Graham • 34 minutes ago
so the dog had no quality of life at BAD RAP? Is that the public statement from BAD RAP?

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Mongoose218 jaspurranddude • 2 hours ago
THIS Is why all RESCUES need oversight of some kind....too many of these stories over the years!! The people who work there and earn big salaries should NOT be the only ones defending the place and slandering a Examiner writer who dares to bring it to light!

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Cindy Marabito ColoRADogs • an hour ago
Please do not attack the readers here. You have been extremely volatile towards me, name calling and the like, however, I will not condone your attacks on the other readers who would like to express their opinions, such as the many you have been so generous to share with us today.

And? In your demented head do you really think they can all be
saved? So as you type of being full does that mean you are a hoarder?
That is the only way I feel you can attempt to save them all but we all
know that the quality of any life is lost anyway. Well, apparently
except you.

Doesn't take a degree in rocket science to know the difference
between Spindletop, Bad Rap, and Animal Farm. To lump them together
makes you a poor example of "filmmaker". Definitely shows that your
views are not to be trusted because you cannot process something as
simple as each entity is its own.

Thank you Kristy, I did not know the connection was to Spindletop. I
financially funded the care of a pup there for years. When I
questioned his well being since there had been no updated status for him
for the better of 2 years my check was returned. That said, I
personally cannot save all of them and I back those who attempt to make
lives better for this breed. I guess the next groundbreaking article
will be about VRC. This person, "author", "filmmaker" really does have
some BIG mental health issues going on. Sad, just sad. I think we
should continue to speak the truth about those she is attempting to
slander, but in the Spirit of the Christmas season we need to show pity
for her as well. And of course her family, and friends and please Dear
Lord extend your love and patience to the 4-leggers whom somehow ended
up in her charge.

You are a hate monger, who may be a filmmaker. You are slanted and
your "work" shows that. Off this topic, my nephew is disabled and was
taking therapeutic horseback riding. They too have a HUGE barn that was
garnered from funds provided by the general public It too is used to
host parties to raise even more funds. What I am saying is it was MORE
COST EFFECTIVE to raise those funds, raise a barn, and host even more
fund raisers there as opposed to having to pay an outside venue...So, I
find your reference to the HUGE BARN, really a moot point. Next...

I am not "part of that group" I do however follow them and many
other APBT advocates, and I must agree with Kristy, you are delusional.
You have a very slanted view on those who are attempting to promote the
ABPT in a positive light. IF those dogs, you are screaming about, are
indeed dead, then knowing what I do about this organization and others
they were put down with cause, not some random act of playing God. I
would love to be in a position to save them all but sometimes that is
not a feasible situation. Doesn't matter what breed of dog it may be.

I see no hate here, just statements that are in direct difference to
yours. So because someone disagrees with your slant then they are
haters? You are somehow not believable and that frightens me. The APBT
is one of my most favored breeds and all the "hate" you spew towards
organizations trying to promote them is so very frightening. You seem to
be part of the problem and not the solution to making the general
public understand just what and who they are and can be...

Maybe that is her agenda....to make it appear that those who have
taken on the task of promoting a wonderful breed of dog are noting more
than a facade. It then can be beneficial to those wanting to ban our
breed. Media has been biased about lessor things. Makes me feel as if
she is assisting in the destruction of the breed, instead. Kind of makes
me go huuuuuummmmmm

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Pat Gilleran I'm glad they deleted her entire archive - how dare she make this crap up- it was a very touching story - but now to hind that it was phones is very disconcerting
February 6 at 4:52pm
Karen Negrin
Karen Negrin I take info off of Facebook too but I try to contact the poster first to make sure that the person who posted: 1. Will let me use their name and info, 2. That the information is still accurate. I keep saying that I want to do an update article on Memphis but still have not had the time to put the new information together. There just isn't enough time in the day.
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The Pit Bull Propaganda Machine Revealed via IMediaEthics

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SB Gombola
SB Gombola I heard the great legal mind is at work on a certain page... LOL yeah take that idiots advice.. I personally love when you do.
3 · February 6 at 5:22pm